Holographic DVDs

An amazing new breakthrough is to be unfolded at the end of the year 2006. The reason this breakthrough is so amazing is because it allows for an unbelievable mass storage of up to 1.6 Terabytes per DVD. Although this is the potential it will not be starting out at this capacity. The first and lowest capacity for this DVD will be 300 Gigabytes. While 300 Gigabytes may be a lot of space for a single DVD I can most definitely see how quickly this space could be taken up in the not too distant future. As if this insane amount of storage wasn't enough to catch your attention this little movie clip might. Apparently these DVDs will transfer information much faster and even compress your files so they take up a little less than one third as much space.

Do you think this new development will end Blu-ray and HD-DVD for good?

Dell-AMD

According to recent demands surrounding the company Hon Hai Precision Industry which develops AMD-based servers they wish to sell their AMD-based servers to Dell. I for one view this as being a great opportunity for the popularity of Opterons to grow to new heights. On the other hand if the Opterons become too popular Dell may begin selling the AMD-based servers at too high a price for the small-business owners.

Do you believe this to be a positive business move for AMD?

Huxley MMOFPS

The PC/Xbox360 FPS called Huxley will most probably be released in an entire year from now, but the concept and work done on it so far seem to be quite attractive. The game makes use of the Unreal 3 Engine (The same engine used for Unreal Tournament 2007). I think this game is worth looking into and keeping an eye on throughout its development. The trailer really shows off what the game can look like.

How do you think a successful MMOFPS will affect MMORPGs?

ATI Losing Popularity

It has come to my attention that the increase in price of ATI's X1800 cards, the lack of quantity, and the lack of great functionality which was supposed to tower over Nvidia's GeForce 7800 GTX is resulting in a decrease of ATI's popularity with consumers on all spectrums. With Nvidia's GeForce 8 cards being released in just two more quarters, it doesn't give ATI much time to develop a whole new graphics card technology.

What will happen when the GeForce 8 series is released and ATI has nothing to rival it with?

GeForce 6800 GS

Well, it looks like Nvidia still hasn't ceased further development on their Geforce 6 series capabilities. The GeForce 6800 GS will rival the X1600 XT and X800 GT cards from ATI. From the look of the core and memory clock speed along with the 12 pipelines this card may infact perform better than the GeForce 6800 GT. It may even end up cheaper.

Do you think Nvidia's further exploitation of the GeForce 6 series will prove to be a beneficial business move?